Renowned tech executives CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX Elon Musk, Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, Indian tech company Infosys, and Amazon Web Services have pledged $1 billion for Open AI, a non-profit project that aims to develop artificial intelligence in a way that benefits humanity.
OpenAI wishes to accelerate the expansion and adoption of AI in a safe way that can be conducted without the need to generate revenue. The organization is committed to posting its findings and research through blog posts, open patents, and code. A statement on its website says the venture aims “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.”
“We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely,” Musk wrote. “It's hard to fathom how much human-level AI could benefit society, and it's equally hard to imagine how much it could damage society if built or used incorrectly.”
Scientists have long warned us that rapid advances in AI could threaten humanity. Last year, British physicist Stephen Hawking said that AI could potentiality “re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,” overriding humans by biological evolution. Musk told MIT students that AI was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.”
OpenAI will make use of the $1 billion funding to unveil large sets of data and build artificially intelligent robots that will not kill humanity. The endeavor also hopes it can work against big companies like Google and Facebook, both which have huge artificial intelligence operations.
Source: BBC
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